ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 18845, 10 June 1920, Page 5

ABOUT PEOPLE

General Booth left Wellington for Chrjftchurch last night, says a Press Association telegram. The Otago Institute has appointed the Hon. G. M. Thomson as its representative at the Pan-scientific Congress, to be held at Honolulu in August. Mr Percy Cooke, of the local Gas Department, has been advised that he has been appointed to the position of accountant to the Masterton gas department, and leaves for the North in a few weeks’ time. Mr H. M. Skeet, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Auckland, has been appointed Surveyor-General (says a Wellington Press Association telegram). He will be succeeded at Auckland by Mr G. H. Bullard, Commissioner at New Plymouth, whoso place will be taken by Mr H. J. Lowe, of Blenheim. Mr W. Robson, manager of the local branch of the Bank of New Zealand, ha* been promoted to a position in the Head Office Wellington, and expects to leave Invercargill within the next few days. He will be succeeded here by Mr E. McPhail at present accountant in the Christchurch branch. Mr McPhail already has many friends in Invercargill as he served in the local branch of the bank some years ago, going subsequently to Wanganui as accountant and then to Whakatane as manager. The remains of the late QuartermasterSergeant Herbert Yorke Tinker, who met hi* death under tragic circumstances a few days ago, were interred with military honours in the Eastern cemetery yesterday. The gun carriage and team were supplied by the battery, and the R.S.A. provided the firing party and pall bearers while the Association’* official band, the Hibernian Band, beaded the cortege. Chaplain Gilbert officiated at the grave side. Q.M.S. Tinker was a native of Ash-ton-under-Lyne, Lancashire and he enlisted on the outbreak of war and served through some of the fiercest fighting with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was twice wounded, once at Ypres by shrapnel and again in the forehead at the Somme. At the close of the war he proceeded with his regiment to Ireland, where he remained on garrison duty, being discharged only in March last. He arrived in New Zealand with his mother only a month ago, and was engaged by Messrs Bing, Harris and Co. Being a man with much experience in English houses, he was thought by his employers to have a brilliant business future before him. He had also showed marked ability as a soldier, leaving for France as a corporal and being steadily promoted. The deceased had been specially commended by his colonel on more than one occasion.